New Proverbs on the Pride of Women:
commonly are tail ready, loon angry, ſoon pleaſed eafſily purſuaded to do any thing; if a temptation afflict will be eaſily overcome, even to hornify your head: for ſuch are live-looſe’s children.
12. Neither do ye encounter with one who hath a big belly, and a boſom full of paps, for ſuch are ſeldom wholeſome; nor one who is too tall, for ſueh long people when they fall are too heavy to riſe, but the beſt way under the ſun is to marry, and ſo continue, look back to dorty maidens and give them the ſcornful catalogue follows:
13. O ye haughty maids, mock my proverbs and I’ll mock your pride, ſigh for a man when it is too late, and ſend for him when he will not come, your (illegible text)youth is, I'm o'er young to marry yet, until the wrinkles riſe in your face like the back of a, ram-horn, and (illegible text) but one tooth bound in with a rag, then make a (illegible text) of your thumbs, and (illegible text) of your long ringers, and play,
(illegible text) could I marry a (illegible text) just now,
(illegible text) my time and my lover too.
And here I ſhall be ſilent for a ſhort time, then I shall vex Vanity once more let one ſay I am a rattle-ſkull, another, he is jumbled in his judgement diſturbed in his ſtudies, ſo I make an end, leſt they ſay, I am become a preacher, and every trade is en croaching upon another; now be that wonders at my folly I will wonder at his wiſdom, then we are even with one another.
PART II.
COME, O men and miniſters, and behold madmen and fooliſh women, running into the bonds of wedlock, as the horſe doth unto the battle. No; no, no holding back, but John Slothe and Maggy Idle muſt be married, even becauſe they have (illegible text) but meanneſs, no teacher but I—Is, no wit (illegible text) no wealth but wanton folly; and poor (illegible text) antiquity only excepted.
